Edited By Nandini Gupta With Inputs From Pti

India recorded 70,496 fresh cases of coronavirus and 964 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 69 lakh, shows the Health Ministry data released this morning. A total of 78,365 people also successfully fought off the viral disease over the last 24 hours, bringing down the overall active cases to almost 13 per cent...

In a prime example of how cheats are using people's unfamiliarity with online financial transactions, Rs 1.5 lakh was allegedly siphoned from the bank account of a plants' nursery owner in Maharashtra's Palghar district, two hours north of Mumbai.

A 107-year-old woman in central Maharashtra's Jalna district, near Aurangabad, has not only recovered from COVID-19, she did it in just 10 days and within weeks of undergoing a spine surgery, officials said today.

Dismissing fears about privatisation of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, its Chairman and Space Department Secretary K Sivan said the recently announced space sector reforms - allowing participation of private players - will allow the agency to move away from the routine and better utilise its resources for "technology development and ...

A day after Dalit Spiritual leader Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri questioned his exclusion from the Ayodhya Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony, BSP president Mayawati today said an invitation would have been in keeping with the "Constitutional intention of setting up a casteless society".

Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by its Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said. The court added that mass awareness must be created on the subject through the Doordarshan a...

The human trial of India's first anti-COVID vaccine - Covaxin, which is being developed by Bharat Biotech - started at Rohtak's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences today, Haryana Health and Home Minister Anil Vij said.

Specialist doctors have been called in to address the neurological problems faced by jailed Maoist ideologue and revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, who is being treated for COVID-19 at south Mumbai's St George Hospital. Neurologists from JJ Hospital, where he was earlier admitted, are expected to visit him later today, hospital officials said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray performed the ceremonial worship of Lord Vitthal at the Pandharpur temple, some 360 km away from Mumbai. All Covid safety measures were observed

It's been almost three months since the coronavirus lockdown triggered an economic chain reaction that left thousands without work and almost just as long since this family of seven in Northeast Delhi's Seelampur has had a full square meal to eat.

The famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala will reopen for devotees from June 11 with all COVID-19 safety measures in place, top temple officials said, adding that only a fixed number of people would be allowed per day per hour and tickets can be bought online.

India recorded 70,496 fresh cases of coronavirus and 964 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 69 lakh, shows the Health Ministry data released this morning. A total of 78,365 people also successfully fought off the viral disease over the last 24 hours, bringing down the overall active cases to almost 13 per cent...

In a prime example of how cheats are using people's unfamiliarity with online financial transactions, Rs 1.5 lakh was allegedly siphoned from the bank account of a plants' nursery owner in Maharashtra's Palghar district, two hours north of Mumbai.

A 107-year-old woman in central Maharashtra's Jalna district, near Aurangabad, has not only recovered from COVID-19, she did it in just 10 days and within weeks of undergoing a spine surgery, officials said today.

Dismissing fears about privatisation of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, its Chairman and Space Department Secretary K Sivan said the recently announced space sector reforms - allowing participation of private players - will allow the agency to move away from the routine and better utilise its resources for "technology development and ...

A day after Dalit Spiritual leader Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri questioned his exclusion from the Ayodhya Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony, BSP president Mayawati today said an invitation would have been in keeping with the "Constitutional intention of setting up a casteless society".

Segregation of COVID-19 biomedical waste from other biomedical waste is a must to avoid further spread of the infection and its adverse impact on public health, a bench of the National Green Tribunal headed by its Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said. The court added that mass awareness must be created on the subject through the Doordarshan a...

The human trial of India's first anti-COVID vaccine - Covaxin, which is being developed by Bharat Biotech - started at Rohtak's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences today, Haryana Health and Home Minister Anil Vij said.

Specialist doctors have been called in to address the neurological problems faced by jailed Maoist ideologue and revolutionary writer Varavara Rao, who is being treated for COVID-19 at south Mumbai's St George Hospital. Neurologists from JJ Hospital, where he was earlier admitted, are expected to visit him later today, hospital officials said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray performed the ceremonial worship of Lord Vitthal at the Pandharpur temple, some 360 km away from Mumbai. All Covid safety measures were observed

It's been almost three months since the coronavirus lockdown triggered an economic chain reaction that left thousands without work and almost just as long since this family of seven in Northeast Delhi's Seelampur has had a full square meal to eat.

The famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala will reopen for devotees from June 11 with all COVID-19 safety measures in place, top temple officials said, adding that only a fixed number of people would be allowed per day per hour and tickets can be bought online.